Arianna Huffington's Dramatic Lesson After 'Coming to in a Pool of Blood and Realizing Nobody Had Shot Me'

Arianna Huffington was trying to be the perfect entrepreneur and perfect mother at the same time when she collapsed, "coming to in a pool of blood and realizing nobody had shot me,” she says.

At the same time that she was growing a fledgling media company, Huffington was working to honor her oldest daughter’s rule that her mother should stay disconnected from her devices -- and her work -- while they were touring colleges. Huffington, now 65, did just that, but she didn’t get away with it. In a dramatic wake-up call, Huffington lost consciousness and broke her cheekbone.

“Building the Huffington Post, I had bought into the mythology that everything was dependent on me -- and that I had to do everything at the expense of sleep, health,” Huffington says during a video interview with Entrepreneur.